Annnnnd we have another Elixir meetup!
I'm excited about this one.
And thanks again to our sponsor for food/drinks and the venue, https://doloops.net, the best Elixir/Erlang agency in Central Europe.
Our first talk will be from Francesco Cesarini, Founder of Erlang Solutions and co-author of Erlang Programming.
The Erlang Ecosystem from behind the Trenches: WhatsApp's Secret Sauce
Erlang is a programming language designed for the Internet Age, although it pre-dates the Web. It is a language designed for multi-core computers, although it pre-dates them too. It is a "beacon language", to quote Haskell guru Simon Peyton-Jones, in that it more clearly than any other language demonstrates the benefits of concurrency-oriented programming. This language, about a decade ago, turned into an ecoystem of languages, with over 35 of them running on the BEAM Virtual Machine today, the most popular one being Elixir.
In this talk, Francesco will introduce Erlang from behind the trenches, looking at how its history influenced its constructs, constructs which in turn helped shape Elixir. He will be doing so from a personal perspective, with anecdotes from his time at the Ericsson computer science lab at a time when the language was being heavily influenced and later when working on the OTP R1 release, all the way to Frameworks such as Phoenix, Nerves and Nx.
About Francesco
Francesco Cesarini is the founder of Erlang Solutions Ltd. He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of OTP, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions, who have become the world leaders in Erlang based consulting, contracting, training and systems development. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming and Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP, books published by O’Reilly. He also lectures at Oxford University.